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The Contribution of Psychotherapy to Wider Social Change – Dr Susie Orbach

This Event is a part of the Therapy and Social Change Seminar Series

What can the world of psychotherapy and counselling contribute to wider social justice and progressive social change? Lynne Gabriel and Kate Smith interview one of the most socially influentially psychotherapists in the world, Dr Susie Orbach

Book your place at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-contribution-of-psychotherapy-to-wider-social-change-dr-susie-orbach-tickets-579893897257

“Psychotherapy at Play”

with Dr Susie Orbach

Medical Psychotherapy Trainees and Trainers Conference 2023 – “Psychotherapy at Play”

Friday 26th May, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham

We are excited that the 2023 Medical Psychotherapy Trainees and Trainers Conference is fast approaching. It promises to be an interesting and inspiring day featuring a rich diversity of renowned speakers. Programme highlights include Dr Susie Orbach, the world acclaimed psychotherapist and author, in conversation about her work and her writing; Prof Adrian Sutton, Director of the Squiggle Foundation, speaking about the importance of play in his work with children and adolescents; Dr Haroula Konstantinidou on relational prescribing and Dr Simon Heyland on the use of language in working with medically unexplained symptoms.

This year for the first time we are hosting a collaborative conference, organised jointly by medical psychotherapy trainees and PsychArt, a trainee-led organisation celebrating the arts in psychiatry.  We are pleased to be able to welcome professionals working in or interested in the disciplines of Psychotherapy, Psychiatry and the Arts as well as offering a great discounted rate for students. 

We are pleased to invite submissions for an art competition where we encourage you to express what being alive means for you. All artistic media are welcome. 

Book your tickets here before they sell out as places are limited. 

We look forward to welcoming you,

The Conference Committee 2023 and PsychArt

Chrissie Pollard Interviews Professor Brett Kahr

The esteemed B.B.C. broadcaster has recently interviewed Brett Kahr about his book on Freud’s Pandemics:  Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis, as well as such topics as the nature of self-destructive behaviour and other-destructive behaviour during the coronavirus pandemic.

Here are the links to the podcast, available both on Chrissie Pollard’s website and, also, on YouTube.

TV Portfolio

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtLzDib5zolefUx0UrBZP9Q

Professor Brett Kahr at the Chalke Valley History Festival

In June, 2022, Professor Brett Kahr spoke at the Chalke Valley History Festival in Broadchalke, near Salisbury, in Wiltshire, about “Are We All Mad?:  The History of the Human Mind, its Brilliance, and its Frailties”.  He had the privilege to participate in an “in conversation” with the distinguished novelist, Sebastian Faulks, author of a gripping novel on nineteenth-century psychiatry called Human Traces.

After the conversation about the past, present, and future of “madness” with Mr. Faulks, Kahr enjoyed meeting many of the guests at a Waterstone’s book-signing.

Susanna Abse

Tell Me The Truth About Love

How to make your relationship last — six tips from a couples therapist.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/6971fa98-d6c2-11ec-8585-951ab3afb4d2?shareToken=ea33f5e6e2ba35c03940beac4c1997c8

For more, download The Times and The Sunday Times app here.

https://welldoing.org/article/what-is-intimacy-anyway

https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/books/susanna-abse-tell-me-the-truth-about-love-1352015.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017cnw

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/may/14/secret-to-saving-your-relationship-eight-lessons-from-a-couples-therapist?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WnxbVcRcddPfYRNlpB9qTp/debunking-relationship-advice-eight-myths-from-reality-tv
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